New Water Bottle

youre taking a class in entrepreneurial tactics with a project on VC pitches in high school? this sounds absurdly more productive than ~95% of the classes i took in high school.

It would cost a good bit more to produce. blow molding 2 separate compartments encased in a third bottle shaped compartment wouldnt be cheap, and you would need some sort of custom retaining ring to prevent the bottles from leaking out or into each other. Large start up cost for plastic molding, insignificant marginal cost for plastic pellets and operation, but some (manual?) assembly of the plastic parts. Think about how the top would thread on to whatever outside geometry you pick and also how you could get a water tight seal between the cap and where the liquid is stored.

One marketing direction I would consider is the Gatorade fueling "steps" they've been advertizing. Some sort of drink before exercise, a during exercise drink, and a recovery drink. What if you made a triple bottle for them with a section for each? That seems like something a big marketing company like Gatorade would love. Forces/urges you to buy and use all three.

I think you should take a composition class.

While it is true that the OP has terrible grammar, it makes more sense from my perspective for the OP to take a course on making and selling products than a class about reading fiction books and writing essays. There's nothing wrong with studying literature, the humanities, or anything like that, but it is definitely over-rated if your passion lies in contributing to an unrelated industry. The opposite is true if you have no interest or ability in the sciences. If economists don't need to understand the physics behind why the plane does/doesn't take off, then a thinktank/marketing person doesn't need to know Shakespeare.

For most people in the work force, grammar really only matters if you want people to be superficially impressed with your outward aura of intelligence when you speak, which is certainly important, but again, only important in certain fields (and obviously interviews). Plus, gratuitous good grammar can be a big turn-off in most non-business environments.

A double standards is something up with which I simply will not put!

yagtash wrote:

If economists don't need to understand the physics behind why the plane does/doesn't take off, then a thinktank/marketing person doesn't need to know Shakespeare.

So you don't think a "thinktank/marketing person needs to be able to write well? I've been in the business world for 30 years and I can tell you that the value of being able to write succinctly and clearly - but with enough descriptive detail, cannot be underestimated.

The reality is that someone those positions will do a lot of writing. They will need to write business plans, proposals, marketing or creative briefs, analyses of research findings, contracts, detailed memos, etc.

Like any other skill, writing only improves with practice. There is nothing wrong with a class in entrepreneurial tactics, but some literature or history can be very beneficial as well.

Your right, my grammar was terrible in the first post. I was just trying to quickly get my point across and didn't bother to read it over. I appreciate all the feedback.

With any idea, there would be obvious issues relating to production, marketing, finance that we would need to work out and that's why we have a semester to work. The main thing I was wondering is your thoughts on a divided water bottle. As a high school cross country runner, I know I often debate between water or Gatorade to put in a bottle to drink after a run. Would you buy one of these water bottles? Does anyone have any other actual ideas that would be plausible for us to do as high schoolers. Thanks

Perhaps a cap with a compartment on top that can hold trail mix, I would like that.

is this you?

http://www.quirky.com/products/38-HydraDuo-Water-Bottle

I think it is clever. It might actually have more traction with the cycling community. They go through more liquids and often have two cages with bottles and a different fluid in each.